ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,211, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to inlyse GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Method for detection of malware" was invented by Christian Boll (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Julian Ziegler (Herxheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For improving the efficiency of malware detection, a method is proposed that can handle computer files (1) of varying types and sizes and at the same time maintain a high detection performance by classifying a number of different types (A, B, C, D, E) of images (4), each calculated or derived from a particular computer file under test (1) (CFUT), using artificial intelligence methods such as machine learning,...